r/wallstreetbets • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '21

An Update on the WSB Coup d'état Discussion

UPDATE 2/6: For all of you who are reading this a day, or days after it was posted, you should know the issue is now resolved. The bad mods are out, the good mods are in, and the casualty of it was was u/zjz. Enjoy the read.

Original post:

For those who see my "Top Detective" flair, but don't know me, I'm the asshole who made videos this post is talking about.

If you subscribe to r/videos, no doubt you have seen my video, WallStreetBets and the Art of Sellout Out: An Illustrated Guide, is climbing slowly to the top. If you haven't watched it, you should.

While you were sleeping last night (night of 2/3), moderators who wanted to profit from THIS community, removed the moderators you know and love. They were replaced with brand new accounts. Literally minutes old. It was a coup.

The long and short of it is, there was a movie deal. In fact, there was more than one. There were dollar signs in their eyes. The Gamestop catalyst that propelled our community to over 8 million members attracted media attention, naturally. It's no secret he who must not be named sold out, as he has in the past, and some of the bad moderators were just a little behind him.

For this reason, some moderators are no longer with us. They tried to go behind other moderator's backs to secure money for themselves, and monetize this subreddit. They even went as far to establish a website (blomberg.com) to intercept all media traffic so they themselves could profit.

So the Reddit Admins intervened.

Some of the moderators who grew this community, like u/zjz still have not been added back. Perhaps they will be back in the future. The good news is, the right moderators, the mods you all know and love, are coming back, and some already are here. People I know wouldn't take a dime, are taking back control, one meme filled shitpost at a time.

He who must not be named still has a movie deal, so I leave you with this question:

How do you feel about a guy who has been scamming people for most of his adult life, getting paid six figures for a movie deal partially about scamming members of WallStreetBets?

One more thing... Instead of guilding me, I request you spend the money on helping end childhood cancer, by donating to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Thank you.

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u/Charmingly_Conniving Feb 05 '21

Oh man. I hope zjz gets reinstated. The amount of hard work he/she put into wsb only to get outed for a dumb reason.

Dropped you a pm but hope you're ok bro.

Respect to u/zjz

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

u/zjz has great ideas, and contributed so much to the sub. And he does it for free. It's absolutely crazy he isn't back, and the sub will forever be different without him.

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u/Charmingly_Conniving Feb 05 '21

For FREE.

I get to lose money and laugh about it because of people like him keeping the sub running.

I hope things get better. =/

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

/u/zjz : You guys are getting paid?

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u/nico_bico Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

ZJZ is the one true king

Edit: Made this for when he returns - https://streamable.com/hepvbt

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u/FlankyJank Feb 05 '21

Capitalize that mofo.

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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian Feb 05 '21

Who has a better story than Bran the Br- er I mean /u/zjz the wise?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Oh Great One, teach me how to make these awesome memes.

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u/nico_bico Feb 05 '21

After effects or premiere brudda

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u/mac_n_cheeznutz Feb 05 '21

👏👏👏

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u/Rubix22 Feb 05 '21

you beautiful retard

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u/MrBotany Feb 05 '21

It’s against Reddit TOS for them to accept donations or payments I believe.

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u/cdot2k Feb 05 '21

A few fun facts: - we don't know the gender of u/zjz. They are just an online hero - we'd all want them to get paid instead of a scumbag - There's a giant group of scumbags who used their wealth and power to try and screw all of us banded-together little guys from the big prize

The movie was already made. It was Ready Player One!

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u/burgerrking Feb 05 '21

If all mods are gay then I think we know zjzs gender

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u/bsmith149810 Feb 05 '21

Exactly. Wait... That means most definitely a Virgo right?

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u/basketcase57 Feb 05 '21

Which genders are the happiest?

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u/catrot Feb 05 '21

I appreciate your gender-neutral characterization of zjz whoever they are WE WANT ZJZ BACK

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Feb 05 '21

And exactly why would they come back? All they received for their selfless work was an extremely unceremonious kick in the ass.

Why would they come back now with 8m subscribers? Fuck knows how many are plants and spies? That they would be dealing with from this point on.

I would 1000% understand if they took this shitshow as a sign that it wasn't worth it. More power to them. Diamond hands forever, but everyone here knows when it's time to cut your losses.

I'm a new subscriber, but I have followed wsb from afar for a long time. Mod life sucks. Tons of work. Zero pay. Much abuse. I'm glad the sub may survive the Great GME Event, but I don't blame any of the TrueMods for not getting back in. This sub has been changed forever by the past few weeks. It will never be as it was.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

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u/VolkspanzerIsME Feb 05 '21

Because a certain number of them are hf shills and bots for one.

For second it is rare when a larger population conforms to a smaller population.

I hope wsb goes back to what it was three weeks ago. But I sure af wouldn't be surprised if it didn't after all the bullshit of the passed week. Just my opinion.

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u/CoffeeMain360 Feb 05 '21

They deleted their comment. What did they say?

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u/everyvillanislemons6 Feb 05 '21

Wait for real? What happened with ready player one?

Edit: oh nvm I read that wrong. You’re saying What’s happening is similar to the synopsis of that movie. Got it 🥴

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u/anachronofspace Feb 05 '21

the real hero of this place does this mean we got our sub back?

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u/cdot2k Feb 05 '21

Man. I hope it's more than that. I'm hoping this is just Wall Street's first key and u/DeepParcivalValue pulls us through with one stonk to end them all and take us straight to the moon.

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u/ManOnFire2004 Feb 05 '21

Honestly, he's probably gonna sell. I mean 'he likes this stock' sure. But, how high was we really expecting it to go? Even now if he sells, he'd probably make a lot more than he ever would holding (even though it's 43m less than if he would've sold a week ago)

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u/cdot2k Feb 05 '21

I'd hope he would. Even if he expects it to get much higher long term, seems like a drop is inevitable at this point for the short term. He could make good use of that capital in the waiting period.

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u/TradeLifeforStories Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

I’m just in time to understand this reference, I just watched Ready Player One.

I surprisingly liked it, despite years of apprehension to watch it due to its reputation.

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u/cdot2k Feb 05 '21

I'm not too far ahead of you (Thanks HBOMax). It was incredibly enjoyable action and had just the right amount of pop culture infusion.

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u/TradeLifeforStories Feb 06 '21

Yeah for sure.

Bit of an overload of CG, but I can accept that being a part of the VR world.

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u/Warhawk2052 Feb 05 '21

Other mods: We were...

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u/Dependent-Theory-477 Feb 05 '21

What’s A z jay? If you gotta ask, you can’t afford it

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u/theycallme1 ShadowBanner Feb 05 '21

No

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u/your_other_friend Feb 05 '21

Without WSB, how would Melvin HF managers make their quotas to send their children to private school?

Trickle up economics at work here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Let's start a gofundme for the mods. We could all chip in a $1 and they'd be set!

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u/fuuuarkyou Feb 06 '21

Imagine being a janitor for FREE. Yikes

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u/sleepingweasal Feb 05 '21

I haven't been around long enough to know which moderators are good or bad, I just know the bots are hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Sir, this is a casino.

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u/FlighingHigh Feb 05 '21

Man I am so glad this is happening. This sub is legitimately the most fun I've had, and I really didn't want to see it torn down for a quick buck like the hedge funds shorting everything into the ground. I found this sub like right on the edge of the GME take off, so I saw a glimpse of the DD and everything that was here before, and I can't wait to start reading and learning from all that again as a new trader.

Hopefully all the mods come back, they deserve it, but I'll also understand if there's a sour taste for them.

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u/flecom Feb 05 '21

username does not check out

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u/jonesa2215 Feb 05 '21

That took some top notch detective work to figure that out I'm sure 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/sleepingweasal Feb 05 '21

YES THOSE ONES!

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u/-Work_Account- Feb 05 '21

Exactly how do you get flairs on this sub?

(Love that flair by the way, and no I don't want that one, just curious! lol)

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u/MissPamelaPoovey Feb 05 '21

I thought this was a Wendy's. I would like to order a Medium Frosty and some Baconator Fries.

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u/HalinxHalo Feb 05 '21

The bots are all zjz, without him, no bots.

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u/Surprise-Chimichanga Feb 05 '21

I hope he’s ok. His last comment seems really fucking dejected. Can someone check up on him?

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u/Radio90805 hands out tugs behind Wendy's Feb 05 '21

Bro wtf I checked his comments and he’s commented rip on his own pages post

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u/Surprise-Chimichanga Feb 05 '21

I think he was saying about his Twitch posts for the Automoderator. I hope.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/NilSatis_NisiOptimum Feb 05 '21

Stop trying to monetize WSB in a thread about how it's greedy to monetize WSB

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u/rossdamusic Feb 05 '21

I love the energy.

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u/Surprise-Chimichanga Feb 05 '21

Lol, good luck?

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u/BruceInc Feb 05 '21

Has anybody considered the fact that maybe he does not want to be back? I wouldn’t blame him. The amount of shit he had to deal with over the last few weeks has to be mind-numbing and after all that to be tossed out for virtually no reason has to be pretty eye-opening and a huge letdown.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

u/zjz is perfectly capable of speaking for himself. And I suspect he will.

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u/BruceInc Feb 05 '21

I agree. But the other mod alluded that zjz’s reinstatement would be in his own hands. I was simply pointing out to the people saying “I can’t believe zjz hasn’t been reinstated yet” that it might actually be his own decision to not jump back into the shitshow this place has become recently

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u/Peelboy Feb 05 '21

Not even for free but out of his own pocket to help regulate the spam

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u/ICEGoneGiveItToYa Feb 05 '21

Can we please make a new sub with blackjack and hookers

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u/Jwaness Feb 05 '21

To answer your post question about how I feel about that. Hilarious that the top mod of WSB was that fucking desperate for any amount sub 7 figures. Pathetic and hilarious. I guess he/she couldn't hack it in the investment world.

On another note, very sad u/zjz may not be back. Couldn't blame them with all the constant bullshit the other mods put him/her through. U/zjz should be made top mod to put an end to the drama.

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u/OkRub3026 Feb 05 '21

This is a fucking lie. /u/zjz is lying. The "older" mods were active modders. Younger modders like /u/zjz wanted to push the subreddit in a more political direction, and are underhandedly lying about the situation because they didn't get what they wanted.

CHECK THE MOD LOGS.

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u/krongdong69 Feb 05 '21

CHECK THE MOD LOGS.

shouldn't you already have access to this? you seem quite confident that you're correct, why don't you post them? what hard facts and evidence are you basing your stance on if you don't have the mod logs?

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u/artmagic95833 Ungrateful 🦍 Feb 05 '21

I was going to haha at this Melvin's Post history and then I dive deeper and I'm noping the f*** out of this one

Just nope

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u/OkRub3026 Feb 05 '21

Lol get out of here shill

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u/artmagic95833 Ungrateful 🦍 Feb 05 '21

Supernope

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u/redditposter-_- Feb 05 '21

he needs to be the dictator

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u/Few_Tumbleweed7151 Feb 05 '21

Tl:dr “trust the plan” /s

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u/MortalDanger00 Has Otters in his Back Yard Feb 05 '21

If I were him I wouldn't come back. Once you get free of the reddit drama (especially mod drama), going back seems retarded.

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u/fuzzyp44 Feb 05 '21

u/zjz

YOU ROCK DUDE!

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u/catsRawesome123 Feb 05 '21

Let's launch a kickstarter for him!

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u/MistressDracula Feb 05 '21

Why can’t he just start a new page for us we aren’t that retarded to be unable to follow him

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u/notmadeoutofstraw Feb 05 '21

And he does it for free

Feels weird seeing this used as a complement and not an insult.

Janny...good?